Team > Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke

Book/Monograph

Africa*n Relations : Modalities Reflected
publ: Vierke, Clarissa; Seesemann, Rüdiger; Kroeker, Lena
Bayreuth 2024. - VIII, 121 pp. . - (University of Bayreuth African Studies Online; 11)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007499 ...

Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diasp ...
publ: Fendler, Ute; Kohl, Marie-Anne; Ndi, Gilbert Shang; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph; Vierke, Clarissa
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. - 292 pp. . - (Africa Multiple; 3)

Decolonial Aesthetics II : Modes of Relating
publ: Oloko, Patrick; Ott, Michaela; Simatei, Peter; Vierke, Clarissa
Berlin ; Heidelberg : Metzler, 2023 . - (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens)
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66222-9 ...

Mau, Ustadh Mahmoud
In this Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
publ: Raia, Annachiara; Vierke, Clarissa
Leiden : Brill, 2023. - XVIII, 376 pp. . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/62192?conten ...

Kandagor, Mosol; Ogechi, Nathan O.; Vierke, Clarissa
Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja : kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma L ...
Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2017

Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in honour of Said A. M. Khamis
publ: Vierke, Clarissa; Greven, Katharina
Köln : Köppe, 2016 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

Vierke, Clarissa
On the Poetics of the Utendi : A Critical Edition of the Nineteenth-Century Swahilin Poem ...
Berlin : LIT, 2011. - XVIII, 704 pp. . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 50)

Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages
publ: Sommer, Gabriele; Vierke, Clarissa
Köln : Köppe, 2011 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 23)

Miehe, Gudrun; Vierke, Clarissa
Muhamadi Kijuma : texts from the Dammann papers and other collections
Köln : Köppe, 2010. - 532 pp. . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte; 9)

Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteent ...
publ: Vierke, Clarissa
Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009

rev.: Lenoble-Barth, Annie. 2009. In: Histoire & Missions Chrétiennes, 11: 190-191

Liyongo songs : Poems attributed to Fumo Liyongo
publ: Miehe, Gudrun; Abdalla, Abdilatif; Bhalo, Ahmad Nassir Juma; Nabahany, Ahmed; Baschiera, Angelica; Dittemer, Clarissa; Topan, Farouk; Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.; Khamis, Said A. M.; Omar, Yahya Ali; Al-Bakary, Zeina Mahmoud Fadhil
Köln : Köppe, 2004. - VIII, 230 pp. . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte; 7)
https://www.koeppe.de/titel_liyongo-songs

Complete issue of a journal

Critical Swahili Studies
publ: Brunotti, Irene; Talento, Serena; Tarrant, Duncan; Vierke, Clarissa
Swahili Forum vol. 30 (2023) issue Special Issue
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa ...

One Text – Many Forms : A Comparative View on the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts
publ: Samsom, Ridder H.; Vierke, Clarissa
Manuscript Cultures vol. 17 (2021)
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/mc ...

Texts Travelling Beyond the West
publ: Raia, Annachiara; Vierke, Clarissa
Asian Journal of African Studies vol. 48 (2020)
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?node ...

Reading Closely : Investigating Textuality in Afrophone Literatures
publ: Vierke, Clarissa; Veit-Wild, Flora
Research in African Literatures vol. 48 (2017) issue 1

Article in a journal (peer-reviewed)

Brunotti, Irene; Talento, Serena; Tarrant, Duncan; Vierke, Clarissa
Introduction
in Swahili Forum vol. 30 (2023) . - pp. 1-23
https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/swahili-forum/th ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Of Patience and Pity : Rewriting and Reciting the Widely Travelled Islamic Poem “The Hawk ...
in Islamic Africa vol. 14 (2023) issue 1. - pp. 5-41
doi:10.1163/21540993-20220003 ...

Kresse, Kai; Vierke, Clarissa
Swahili language and literature as resources for Indian Ocean studies
in History Compass vol. 20 (2022) issue 7
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006697 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere” : Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial ...
in Comparative Literature vol. 74 (2022) issue 2. - pp. 156-170
doi:10.1215/00104124-9594800 ...

Samsom, Ridder H.; Vierke, Clarissa
One Text, Many Forms : A Comparative View of the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts
in Manuscript Cultures vol. 17 (2021) . - pp. 2-12
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/fi ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Writing Songs, Singing Texts : Orality and Literacy in Swahili Manuscripts
in Manuscript Cultures vol. 17 (2021) . - pp. 87-104
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/fi ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Boarding a Full Bus
in Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society vol. 51 (2020) issue 1. - pp. 94-117
doi:10.1163/18757421-05101001 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Intervention, Patronage and Performance : A Foreword
in Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society vol. 51 (2020) issue 1. - pp. 4-10
doi:10.1163/18757421-05101003 ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Mutiua, Chapane
The Poem about the Prophet’s Death in Mozambique : Swahili as a Transregional Language of ...
in Journal for Islamic Studies vol. 38 (2020) issue 2. - pp. 44-74
https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/JIS/art ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Raia, Annachiara
Texts Travelling Beyond the West : An Introduction
in Asian Journal of African Studies vol. 48 (2020) . - pp. 1-30
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?node ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Veit-Wild, Flora
Introduction : Digging into Language
in Research in African Literatures vol. 48 (2017) issue 1. - pp. 9-18
doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.01 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Poetic Links across the Ocean : On Poetic ‘Translation’ as Mimetic Practice at the Swahili ...
in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 37 (2017) issue 2. - pp. 321-335
doi:10.1215/1089201x-4132941 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
"What Is There In My Speaking" : Re-Explorations of Language in Abdilatif Abdalla's Anthol ...
in Research in African Literatures vol. 48 (2017) issue 1. - pp. 135-157
doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.09 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
From across the Ocean : Considering Travelling Literary figurations as Part of Swahili Int ...
in Journal of African Cultural Studies vol. 28 (2016) issue 2. - pp. 225-240
doi:10.1080/13696815.2015.1053800 ...

Article in a journal (not peer-reviewed)

Vierke, Clarissa
Of Plants and Women : A Working Edition of two Swahili Plant Poems
in Swahili Forum vol. 14 (2007) . - pp. 27-80

Article in a book (peer-reviewed)

Fendler, Ute; Kohl, Marie-Anne; Ndi, Gilbert Shang; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph; Vierke, Clarissa
Introduction
In: Fendler, Ute ; Kohl, Marie-Anne ; Ndi, Gilbert Shang ; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora - Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2024. - pp. 1-14 . - (Africa Multiple; 3)

Vierke, Clarissa
What is the Place of Local Swahili Poetry in the Grand Indian Ocean? Reading Ustadh Mahmou ...
In: Fendeler, Ute ; Chang, Yongkyu (ed.): Asia-Africa- Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World - Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. - pp. 35-64 . - (Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries)
doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0696-9_3 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Zanzibari Worlds : a Relational Reading of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Adam Shafi A ...
In: Fendler, Ute ; Kohl, Marie-Anne ; Ndi, Gilbert Shang ; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora - Leiden: Brill, 2024. - pp. 108-133
doi:10.1163/9789004689756_008 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
“Born on the Island” : Situating Ustadh Mau’s Poetic Practice in Context
In: Raia, Annachiara ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau - Leiden: Brill, 2023. - pp. 41-68 . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
doi:10.1163/9789004525726_005 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Bwana Mwengo bin Athman, The Epic of the Battle of Tabuk
In: Bennett, Clinton ; Chesworth, John ; Frederiks, Martha ; Grafton, David D. ; Grodź, Stanisław ; Pratt, Douglas ; Ryad, Umar ; Thomas, David (ed.): Christian-Muslim Relations : Primary Sources. Volume 3. 1700-1914 - New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. - pp. 319-324

Vierke, Clarissa
How Ought We to Live? The Ethical and the Poetic in Ustadh Mahmoud Mau’s Poetry
In: Raia, Annachiara ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau - Leiden: Brill, 2023. - pp. 95-132 . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
doi:10.1163/9789004525726_007 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
“The Sea Cannot Be Spoken” : Thinking About Aesthetic Relations, the Poetics of Language(s ...
In: Oloko, Patrick ; Ott, Michaela ; Simatei, Peter ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Decolonial Aesthetics II : Modes of Relating - Berlin ; Heidelberg: Metzler, 2023. - pp. 189-202 . - (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens)
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66222-9_17 ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Mutiua, Chapane
The Kaiser, Angoche and the World at Large : Swahili Poetry from Mozambique as World (War) ...
In: Fyfe, Alexander ; Krishnan, Madhu (ed.): African Literatures as World Literature - New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. - pp. 91-113
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/african-literatures- ...

Vierke, Clarissa
When the Emperor Travelled the Continent : On the Cosmopolis of Islamic Literature and its ...
In: Gehrmann, Susanne ; Mforbe Chiangong, Pepetual (ed.): Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies - Trier: WVT, 2022. - pp. 13-37 . - (LuKA - Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas; 15)

Vierke, Clarissa
Poetry
In: Vossen, Rainer ; Dimmendaal, Gerrit (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of African Languages - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. - pp. 1016-1025
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199609895.013.5 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Frau Betelpfeffer und die lustvollen Stunden : Die Inszenierung sinnlicher Erfahrung, Erin ...
In: Battegay, Caspar ; Henningsen, Lena ; Wiegandt, Kai (ed.): Gegessen? Essen und Erinnerung in den Literaturen der Welt - Berlin: Neofelis, 2019. - pp. 125-148

Vierke, Clarissa
The Making of the “Classical” Utenzi : a Consideration of the Early Editorial History of T ...
In: Aiello, Flavia ; Gaudioso, Roberto (ed.): Lugha na Fasihi : Scritti in onore e memoria di Essays in honour and memory of Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková - Neapel: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2019. - pp. 33-58 . - (Università degli studi di Napoli l'Orientale / Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo : Series Minor; 85)

Vierke, Clarissa
Other Worlds : The “Prophet’s Ascension” as World Literature and its Adaptation in Swahili ...
In: Lamping, Dieter ; Tihanov, Galin (ed.): Vergleichende Weltliteraturen = Comparative World Literatures : DFG-Symposion 2018 - Stuttgart: Metzler, 2019. - pp. 219-233
doi:10.1007/978-3-476-04925-4_15 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Bwana Mwengo bin Athman
In: Thomas, David (ed.): Christian Muslim Relations Online II - Leiden: Brill, 2018. - pp. 777-781
doi:10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_28459 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Utendi wa Tambuka
In: Thomas, David (ed.): Christian Muslim Relations Online II - Leiden: Brill, 2018
doi:10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_28460 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
The Making of the ‘Classical’ Utenzi : a Consideration of the Early Editorial History of T ...
In: Kandagor, Mosol ; Ogechi, Nathan O. ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja : kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma Luchera Shitemi - Eldoret, Kenya: Moi University Press, 2017. - pp. 113-130

Vierke, Clarissa; Greven, Katharina
Critical Visions of the Future in Swahili Fiction
In: Vierke, Clarissa ; Greven, Katharina (ed.): Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in Honour of Said A. M. Khamis - Köln: Köppe, 2016. - pp. 7-25 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

Vierke, Clarissa
The ‘Unhomely’ City : a Literary Figuration in Swahili Dystopian Literature
In: Vierke, Clarissa ; Greven, Katharina (ed.): Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in Honour of Said A. M. Khamis - Cologne: Köppe, 2016. - pp. 75-91 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

Vierke, Clarissa
Comparing the Incomparable? on the poetic use of language in Swahili Hip-Hop and "Classica ...
In: Diegner, Lutz ; Schulze-Engler, Frank (ed.): Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? : East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone - Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015. - pp. 81 . - (Matatu; 46)

Vierke, Clarissa
Some Remarks on Poetic Aspects of Sheng
In: Nassenstein, Nico ; Hollington, Andrea (ed.): Youth language practices in Africa and beyond - Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. - pp. 227-255 . - (Contributions to the Sociology of Language; 105)

Vierke, Clarissa
Akhi patia kalamu : Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script
In: Mumin, Meikal ; Versteegh, Kees (ed.): Arabic Script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system - Leiden: Brill, 2014. - pp. 319-342 . - (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 71)

Vierke, Clarissa
"Im Gebälk die Fledermäuse" : Figurationen der Vergänglichkeit und der Täuschung in der kl ...
In: Vögele, Hannelore ; Reuster-Jahn, Uta ; Kastenholz, Raimund ; Diegner, Lutz (ed.): From the Tana River to Lake Chad : research in african oratures and literatures ; in memoriam Thomas Geider - Köln: Köppe, 2014. - pp. 285-309 . - (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)

Vierke, Clarissa
Zur Forschungsgeschichte der deutschen Afrikanistik, ihre Anfänge und Ausrichtung, am Beis ...
In: Espagne, Michel ; Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale ; Simo, David (ed.): Afrikanische Deutschland-Studien und deutsche Afrikanistik - Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2014. - pp. 73-92

Vierke, Clarissa
Préface: Localiser Histoire du Swahili de David Massamba dans le contexte des recherches e ...
Histoire de la langue swahili : de 50 à 1500 après J.-C. / David Massamba ; traduit du swahili par François Devenne - Paris, 2013

Vierke, Clarissa
Mafumbo : Considering the Functions of Metaphorical Speech in Swahili Contexts
In: Marlo, Michael R. ; Adams, Nikki B. ; Green, Christopher R. ; Morrison, Michelle ; Purvis, Tristan M. (ed.): Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics : African languages in context - Somerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2012. - pp. 278-290
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/42/paper2776.pdf

Article in a book (not peer-reviewed)

Raia, Annachiara; Vierke, Clarissa
Introduction
In: Raia, Annachiara ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau - Leiden: Brill, 2023. - pp. 1-8 . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
doi:10.1163/9789004525726_002 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Préface : L'Histoire de la langue Swahili de David Massamba dans l'histoire de la recherch ...
In: Massamba, David (ed.): Histoire de la langue Swahili : de 50 à 1500 après J.-C. - Paris: Karthala, 2013. - pp. 5-16

Vierke, Clarissa; Sommer, Gabriele
Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages
In: Sommer, Gabriele ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages - Köln: Köppe, 2011. - pp. 11-40 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 23)

Vierke, Clarissa
Between the Lines : Life and Work of the Lamuan Artist and Cultural Broker Muhamadi Kijuma
In: Miehe, Gudrun ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Muhamadi Kijuma : Texts from the Dammann Papers and other Collections - Köln: Köppe, 2010. - pp. 41-62 . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte; 9)

Vierke, Clarissa
Johann L. Krapf : His Life and Work in Context
In: Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007 - Nairobi: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009. - pp. 28-49

Nabahany, Ahmed S.
Utenzi wa Mapisi ya Johann Ludwig Krapf wa Ujerumani : Poem about the Life of Johann Ludwi ...
In: Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007. - Nairobi: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009. - pp. 14-26

Vierke, Clarissa
"Words do neither take roots not bear fruits in our country" : Johann Ludwig Krapf's Role ...
In: Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007 - Nairobi: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009. - pp. 142-156

Vierke, Clarissa
Inkishafi kwa mara nyingine : Erste Schritte zu einer neuen Textedition
In: Winkelmann, Kerstin ; Ibriszimow, Dymitr (ed.): Zwischen Bantu und Burkina : Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag - Köln: Köppe, 2006. - pp. 23-44

Review

Vierke, Clarissa
‘Stringing Coral Beads’
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
2022
reviewed: Vianello, Alessandra ; Kapteijns, Lidwien ; Kassim, Mohamed (Hrsg.): ‘Stringing Coral Beads’ : the religious poetry of Brava (c.1890-1975) ; a source publication of Chimiini texts and English translations. Leiden ; Boston, 2018

Vierke, Clarissa
Seydou, Christiane (Hrsg.): La poésie mystique peule du Mali : Tradition Orale. Paris, 200 ...
Journal of Qur'anic Studies
2014
doi:10.3366/jqs.2013.0124 ...

Doctoral thesis

Vierke, Clarissa
On the poetics of the Utendi : a critical edition of the nineteenth-century Swahili poem " ...
Zürich, Lit, 2011(thesis, 2010, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies - BIGSAS)